George Washington Carver and Henry Ford on the Tuskegee Institute Campus, 1938
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In March 1938, Henry Ford visited George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, as seen in this photo. They had met in person the previous year when Carver visited Dearborn for a conference on "chemurgy," the science of making industrial products from crops. The two were close friends and colleagues and visited each other several additional times before Carver's death in 1943.
In March 1938, Henry Ford visited George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, as seen in this photo. They had met in person the previous year when Carver visited Dearborn for a conference on "chemurgy," the science of making industrial products from crops. The two were close friends and colleagues and visited each other several additional times before Carver's death in 1943.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
March 1938
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
United States, Alabama, Tuskegee
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.151
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.25 in
Width: 4.5 in
Inscriptions
Number 11 circled on back in ink. O-847 handwritten in ink on back, different ink.
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